Gas pipeline woes halt National Grid hookups on Cape

Residents of eight Cape Cod towns will have to wait years before new natural gas lines can be installed after National Grid instituted a moratorium on new hookups. The company will not install any new gas connections for five to seven years after the...

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Fung Wah gets feds’ conditional approval

Nearly two years after shutting it down, federal regulators have given Boston-­based Fung Wah Bus Transportation conditional approval to resume carrying passengers, but authorities say they'll be watching to see if the company slips back into a pattern...

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Sony under attack from hackers and ex-employees

NEW YORK — Threats of violence against movie theaters. Cancelled showings of "The Interview." Leaks of thousands more private emails. Lawsuits by former employees that could cost tens of millions in damages. The fallout from the hack that began four...

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McDonald's in Japan limits orders of fries

TOKYO — Only small fries with that? McDonald's in Japan has begun limiting the serving size of fries as stocks of spuds run short due to labor disruptions on the U.S. West Coast. McDonald's began rationing its fries Wednesday morning. It said prolonged...

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Booting Up: Peer-to-peer lending arrives

Traditional banking is being challenged by new technology and the sharing economy. And this time, there is no bailout in sight. We're in the early stages of a peer-to-peer lending revolution, bolstered by last week's spectacular Wall Street debut of...

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The power and the danger of email! (just ask Sony execs!)

"COMMON sense is not so common," said Voltaire. I KNOW I shouldn't be, but I continue to be astounded by what people at the highest levels of various business -- and just plain folks -- put into emails, on Facebook, iPhone, iCloud, Twitter, Instagram...

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Hackers to Sony: ‘Christmas gift’ to be the worst

Sony hackers have promised to release a disastrous "Christmas gift" that will "put Sony Pictures into the worst state" — another round of embarrassing personal emails, according to multiple news reports. One of the emails allegedly ridicules Leonardo...

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Drug companiess to lose $65 billion on patents

Pharmaceutical companies will lose an estimated $65 billion in sales by 2019 due to patent expirations of leading drugs, according to one research and consulting firm. The companies that will likely be hardest hit include Otsuka, Eli Lilly and AstraZeneca,...

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